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Thinking sheet · My world and community
Made by Nature or People?
Sort a rock, a chair, a shell, a pencil and more into made by nature and made by people, then find one of each in the room.
- Grades
- K–3
- Time
- about 15 minutes
- Kids practice
- natural resources, sorting, cause and effect
What kids do
“Did nature make it, or did people? Sort them out!”
- Sort: rock, chair, apple, pencil, shell, T-shirt, cloud, cup
- Something in the room nature made
- Something in the room people made
- Something in the middle of the circles:
How to run it
- Remind kids that people make things from nature: the chair was once a tree.
- Some things fit in the middle: a garden, a paved path made of stone.
- Do a room hunt for one of each.
Talk about it
- Can people make something without nature?
- Which natural thing do we use most?
- How can we use natural things carefully?
Take it further
Go outside and draw three things nature made.
Pairs well with
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